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- adjective Not having been
briefed .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Fine dug in, saying there wasn't a shard of evidence; I said I had the transcript of Bell's sworn testimony right in front of me, and that while he could lie to the unbriefed audience, he couldn't lie to me.
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He seemed wobbly and unprofessional and unbriefed; surprised, even.
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He seemed wobbly and unprofessional and unbriefed; surprised, even.
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But then he steps into more uncharted -- or unbriefed -- waters: Question: And the corollary question that's emerged on Capitol Hill and elsewhere is, if it is murder, do you then shut down in vitro fertilization clinics?
July 2006 2006
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This decision is basically an advisory opinion and should be given the weight of an unargued and unbriefed court statement.
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Fine dug in, saying there wasn't a shard of evidence; I said I had the transcript of Bell's sworn testimony right in front of me, and that while he could lie to the unbriefed audience, he couldn't lie to me.
Debating the CHRC's Ian Fine: "there can't be enough laws against hate" - Ezra Levant 2008
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John McCain brings up the name Dan Quayle and says the unveiling of that unbriefed, unknown vice presidential pick was not the way to introduce a running mate.
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It is not, in truth, a particularly cheerful occupation to pass endless days in hanging about law-courts amongst a crowd of unbriefed Juniors, and many nights in reading up the law one has forgotten and threading the many intricacies of the Judicature Act. But it happened that his father,
Beatrice Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Just at the critical moment when I was about to enter more particularly into the case, three or four of the great unbriefed came rattling into my room, and broke in upon the oration.
Charles O'Malley — Volume 1 Charles James Lever 1839
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He comes to many meetings unbriefed and unaware of the content.
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